CompuServe Messages

Christophe and Jerry: I've elaborated at my troubles concerning backing up files from and to the PAR drive. Just to let you know there is validity to your findings: 1. I had copied 12 animation segments from the PAR to a hard drive located on a DEC Alpha via Pathworks. (All segments used a block limit of 240) When I copied these ANI files back from the DEC to the PAR drive I found that # 128 was the magic frame. All segments with less frames than 128 restored without a problem. Any ANI with more than 128 frames went scrambled at frame #128. 2. In Pathworks I found a variable to put in the NFT (network file transfer) copy command to allow variable and larger block sizes for binary files. Once I used this option I am able to backup and restore large ANI files to the PAR drive. 3. My findings support the theory that the files get corrupted upon the initial backup attempt not in the restore. I'll check my PAR manual tomorrow as there may be some driver switch which could be used to effect the copying of files off the PAR drive. Bob